2. Took jobs that men often had…factories, etc. Earning paychecks, gaining experience Rosie the Riveter

3. Still economically and socially segregated separate living quarters from white soldiers. Tuskegee Airmen

4.  Rationing: economic control by limiting the use and purchase of goods.  Ex. Butter, nylon, rubber, etc.  Victory gardens: producing own food in effort for the war.

5. Office of War Information:  encourage support for the war.  radio, print, and movies.

6. War bonds  generated money for the war G.I. Bill  money given to soldiers while serving in the army.

7. Baby boom  high increase of birth rates right after the war (1950s)  Today called the “baby boomers”

8. Pearl Harbor led to fear of disloyal Japanese Americans living in the states. They were put into internment camps  temporary imprisonment  FDR signed an Executive Order enforcing this

9. Targeted more than Germans Why?  Racism  lack of political power  Isolated from American culture

10. You may choose to either write about KEY events in a newspaper article, such as battles, atomic bomb, pearl harbor, Hitler, baby boom, etc. You are a Japanese- American who just was removed from their home. You are to write a postcard back to your friends describing your horrible experience. Use the information provided to help you. Must contain no less than 3 facts from packet.

11. Nazi (Germany) Party Attempt to exterminate (kill)  gypsies  disabled  Gays  Jewish community  Genocide

12. Nuremburg Laws  Policies/laws to ensure a pure Aryan race  denied German citizenship to Jews  Segregation from rest of Germany population  denied marriage between Jews and non –Jews

13. Kristallnahct (night of broken glass)  night of acts of violence towards Jews  Many killed and arrested  Businesses broken into

14. Concentration camps  Where groups of people were confined in harsh conditions  Forced labor that benefited Hitler’s Third Reich (his army)

15.  Death Camps  sole purpose was to die and “cleanse” the races.  Largest death camp  Auschwitz, Poland.

16.  FDR responds buy establishing the War Refugee Bar that sends the Red Cross over to Europe to save the Jews.  America then liberates, or frees, the camps from German rule after the war is over.  A RESULT OF THIS WAR IS THAT AMERICA NOW OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES ISRAEL(A JEWISH NATION) AS A NATION.